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Allen Collins
Lynyrd Skynyrd's lead guitarist and the architect of the Free Bird outro solo. Collins played a modified 1964 Gibson Firebird I into a slaved Marshall Super Tremolo + Fender Twin rig that gave him both Marshall grind and Fender clarity. His extended improvisations on Free Bird set the standard for the southern-rock outro solo.
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All field notes →Hybrid Picking for Rock and Blues: Ghost Notes Without the Country Context
Hybrid picking isn't a country-only technique. Mark Knopfler, Albert Collins, and Scotty Moore built careers on it in rock and blues. Here's the technique, where it applies, and the specific moments where using your middle finger changes a phrase from good to right.
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